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Given your dining table’s location, wonder if a rug might be a tripping hazard or even just a nuisance. If you want the chairs to remain on the rug, maybe tape out the 7ft size and see what you think. If adding, consider the busy flooring and suggest no/or a simple design. Hope this helps.

If just wanting to add interest, consider a window treatment and chair cushions which will cozy it up.

While I wouldn’t want to be pushing back from the table on a brick floor, a rug in that spot would be a terrible idea. A true tripping hazard.

There’s enough going on with the busy floor. A rug is not needed to add ”interest”.

Not looking to add interest but to add comfort when dining. Just moved in, hence the box. The wine rack is going. I am aware of tripping hazard. The floor stays. It’s brick pavers.

I’d skip it and wait if you’ve just moved in - agree that it’s likely to impede the walkway (love the floor!)

Why do you feel that a rug would add comfort when dining?

Is the room noisy and echo-y?

Is this your only dining area? Or is this the eat-in kitchen and you also have a formal dining room?

If a chair leg sits on one of the grout lines, does the chair rock? A rug will telegraph those floor "imperfections" and won't be perfectly flat.

I am using the formal dining room as a tv room. The kitchen is not noisy. I think a rug would add softness and protect the bricks

Here a couple of pictures of the rest of house. I am not a minimalist!

You can protect the brick with chair felt pads (but tend to come off) or these.

Vinyl mats come in large sizes and will be easier to move chairs, can be wiped clean and will not be a tripping hazard, so could use an 8ft round.

Sounds like you want a rug, so be sure to test a few to see if a nuisance to pull chair in/out (and also if impeding the walking space). Suggest a darker pattern to compliment the kitchen but also to hide inevitable spills.

Don’t do a rug. The floor is very interesting, and a rug will just be something else to vacuum!

Why is the dining table not centered under the ceiling light fixture?

Here is the space once the table is moved so that it's centered under the light fixture. Doing this moves the rug clearly into the walkway.

Gorilla makes pads that you hammer on. They work better than just the stick felt ones.

A few members here have this product in their homes.

Maybe it could work for you?

You have a lovely home.

We have a similar situation, round table partly into a walkway but with ceramic tile with grout lines similar to yours. A rug just didn’t work. Felt pads under the chairs have worked well.

The rug will be too small and not where it sits in a walkway ever. Godd foot pads on the chairs is all you need .

The flooring is gorgeous. No need to cover it up. Table legs will need protection to prevent damage to the brick floor.

An 8' round rug might be a good size for a 54" round table but maybe not not in this location. It has to fit between the windows and the kitchen and take hallway traffic into consideration.

The table isn't centered under the light fixture, it's pushed toward the windows, maybe so your chairs won't block the walkway?

Here's an example of your table with an 8' rug - if you leave the table where it is, the fact it's off center becomes even more exaggerated. If you center it, the rug and chairs will spill in front of the hallway unless you have room to move the table closer to the living room.

An option until you decide - hard plastic chair glides screwed into the bottom of the chair legs.

Thank you. I think I will give this rug idea more time before I act. Right now I have felt pads on each chair leg bottom. I wish the table were smaller but it’s a sentimental family piece, as is the light.

The hallway leads to bedrooms and garage so there won’t be much traffic except for me. I had thought of cutting the island granite back to gain more room but decided against it.
Any way I go it’s rather awkward but I did not want a formal dining room.

A rug extending past the hallway doesn't bother me, and I like the way it emphasizes the table. Maybe a strong blue to reference the island's color?

What does bother me is the long, seemingly unsupported extension of the granite on the island (unsupported except for the jacked-up wine cooler, that is). Is there another support that we can't see? If not, I would want to cut it back.

Waiting on the rug is a good idea. Can you swag or move the pendant so it is centered over the table?

Also get someone to build a proper riser for the wine fridge if you decide to leave it there and paint it the same color as the island.

It’s a lovely home,congratulations! And my sympathies on the challenges of moving and settling in - it’s so much work!

I do plan to paint the riser under the wine fridge the same Hale Navy as the vent cover and island. The granite is well supported by a wood extension under it. The table will be centered under the light. It is in its current position so we could get the light hung. In the past three months I have cleaned out a 3400 square foot house we lived in for 24 years, packed up what was left 16000 pounds and unpacked into a 2400 square foot house three states away. I have been in my new house one month so there is still a lot to do. I am 82 and one of the movers told me I was the toughest old lady he ever met! Thanks to all for your advice and compliments.